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noun
1.
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
2.
an insect or other small animal that harms or destroys garden plants, trees, etc.
3.
a deadly epidemic disease, especially a plague; pestilence.
Origin:
1545–55; < Latin pestis plague
1545–55; < Latin pestis plague
Related forms
de-pest, verb (used with object)
Synonyms
1. annoyance. 3. pandemic, scourge, epidemic.
1. annoyance. 3. pandemic, scourge, epidemic.
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noun
See under Budapest.
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Word Origin & History
pest
1550s (in imprecations, "a pest upon ____," etc.), "plague, pestilence," from M.Fr. peste (1539), from L. pestis "deadly contagious disease." Meaning "noxious or troublesome person or thing" first recorded 1609.
EXPANDBudapest
Hungarian capital, formed 1872 from merger of two cities on opposite shores of the Danube, Buda (probably from a word originally meaning "water") + Pest, a Slavic name meaning "furnace, oven, cove" (cf. Rus. pech').
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Medical Dictionary
pest (pěst)
n.
An injurious plant or animal, especially one harmful to humans.
A deadly epidemic disease; a pestilence.
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Cultural Dictionary
Budapest [(booh-duh-pest, booh-duh-pesht)]Capital of Hungary and largest city in the country, located in north-central Hungary on both banks of the Danube River; the industrial, cultural, and transportation center of Hungary.
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